We pray for all those working with the NHS and we especially pray for those members of our community who work in hospitals, care homes and serving the public. Also for our elderly parishioners and those with medical conditions. We place you all before God in our daily prayers.

Mass Intentions at Good Shepherd during the Coronavirus shutdown.

Fr John will continue to say Mass each day. The Mass intentions which
have been booked will be honoured on the day and any other Mass intentions in the Mass Book will be said. Any vacant spaces will be offered for the wellbeing of our community.

Trinity
Sunday (A).

7/6/2020

Masses and Mass Intentions

Day

Time

Intention

Feastday

Saturday

Priest only. No public Mass

Intention of Gertie

St
Norbert

Sunday

Priest only. No public Mass

Estelle Johnson
RIP

Most Holy Trinity

Monday

Priest only. No
public Mass

Florence Maclean RIP

feria

Tuesday

Priest only. No public Mass

Theodora Kenny RIP

St Columba, Abbot

Wednesday

Priest only. No public Mass

Parishioners

feria

Thursday *

Priest only. No public Mass

Mary & Jim Hennessy RIP

St Barnabas, Apostle

Friday

Priest only. No public Mass

The Ryan Family

feria

Saturday

Priest only. No public Mass

Mary Lydon RIP

St Anthony of Padua

Sunday

Priest only. No public Mass

Intention of Everal Egan

Feast of Corpus Christi

21. Apr, 2020

Prayer Wall

An opportunity to pray for our parish community.Highlight the URL in the next line and right click on your mouse.

https://padlet.com/johnkavanagh6/tz6mxa8gtok3h7dqThen Go to.......

Double click on the site to add your own prayer.

Add the Christian names of doctors, nurses and carers from our community to the list on our prayer wall. Let us hold them dear to our hearts.

Fr John offers a short reflection for the Feast of The Most Holy Trinity.See link for details.

18. Apr, 2020

Online Prayer Meeting

Let me know by emailing the parish info@goodshephedindownham.co.uk if any of you would like to participate in an online prayer meeting. Through use of Zoom Conferencing Platform we can gather a group with a few clicks on your smartphone or tablet or PC. All you need is a microphone and camera which are normally built in to most modern devices.We had fourteen people at our last meeting.Each Wednesday at 2pm

The closure of the church means we have no parish income. We have a few monthly, Standing Orders.A number of parishioners have asked how they can continue to contribute to the Church during the Coronavirus pandemic. Contact Mary W at info@goodshepherdindownham.co.uk for guidance and supportSee link (click underlined heading) for details.

Some of you may need this information to completer your tax return for the last year.See link for details.

19. Mar, 2020

Good Shepherd Church closed.

No public Masses or services will be celebrated at Good Shepherd or any other Catholic Church until further notice on the instruction of our Archbishop.This will include the Holy Week ceremonies which the priest will celebrate alone and behind closed doors. We are supporting the government guidelines that we must distance ourselves from one another to reduce the spread of the virus.See this website for regular updates on our parish

We have completed the First Confessions for all candidates.Module 5 is cancelled due to the coronavirus.We may have to delay First Holy Communion Sunday until later in the year.

29. Mar, 2020

Heating Fund

The next special collection to replace heating radiatorsWe are attempting to raise £30,000 over the next three years.This is a rough estimate of what it will cost to replace all the radiatorson the church property.